The formal name of the tournament is "The Wimbledon Tennis Championships." However, the overall district is home to a posh shopping area, as well as a lot of public land, open to ramblers and dog walkers.

Robin Hood is a figure of legend, first referred to in the writings of the late Middle Ages. His reputation for "stealing from the rich to give to the poor" has grown throughout the centuries.

Harrods is a department store whose motto is "Omnia omnibus ubique," or "Everything for everyone, everywhere." The giant building looks like the box that Downton Abbey came in.

Olivier was a giant of stage and screen. He was knighted late in life, as was his peer, Guinness (who might be best known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars.")

The House of Lords is made up of members from the peerage. They are divided into Lords Spiritual (from the Church of England) and Lords Temporal, peers from the secular class.

This was also the name of a 2011 film about Thatcher. American actress Meryl Streep played the lead role.

"Backbenchers" are the less-elite members of the House of Commons. The term falls somewhere between "rank-and-file" and "peanut gallery."

"Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage" is a listing of what used to be called the "noble" families of England, with short histories. It is published every four years.

To be technical, the current king or queen is the head of the church (much like the president of the U.S. is Commander in Chief of the military). In practice, though, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the top clergyman.

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of the much-married Henry, and a favorite with the English people. She lived out her days, after Henry discarded her, in the English countryside.

Austen was working on a seventh, now called "Sanditon," when she died. The other novels are "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice," "Northanger Abbey," "Persuasion," "Emma," and "Mansfield Park."

Both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were executed. Both women were convicted of "treasonous" sexual affairs, leading to their deaths and that of their lovers.

Dickens was a prolific writer who produced 15 novels and more than 100 short stories. He needed to keep the work coming -- he had 11 children.

The Magna Carta was an agreement between the king and a group of rebel barons. Its text is complicated, but essentially it protected personal and religious liberties, and influenced the U.S. Constitution centuries later.

"Guiding Light" was a long-running American soap opera. Of the English shows listed, "Coronation Street" is probably the best known. It's been on the air since 1960 and is loved for its view of working-class life.

Some writers are claimed by "both side of the Atlantic," as literature professors like to put it. Both England and America take pride in these expatriate authors who found a home in England.

The faith of the Church of England is popularly known as "Anglicanism." "Recusants" were Catholics who refused to worship at Anglican churches in the years after the schism.

Dick Francis, a former jockey, collaborated with his wife, Mary, to become one of England's best-loved writers. The pair started out writing about the world of racing and its denizens, but quickly branched out into other subjects.

Blake wrote "Songs of Innocence and Experience," which are probably his best-known poems. You might also know him because of his painting, "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun," which features prominently in crime novelist Thomas Harris's "Red Dragon" and its film and television adaptations.

Blackpool is a seaside resort. Its position high on the northwest coast makes it a popular destination for people from cities like Leeds and Manchester.

P.D. James wrote 14 novels about Scotland Yard detective Dalgliesh. But she's also known for "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman," introducing a quietly resourceful female protagonist, Cordelia Gray.

The Duchess of Aquitaine by birth, Eleanor first married King Louis VII of France, then Henry II of England. Three of her sons became kings -- and all this family lore doesn't scratch the surface of how Eleanor wielded power in her own right.

"Sherlock" began airing in 2010, and has become a worldwide sensation. The series brings the Sherlock Holmes story into the present day, with Sherlock Holmes meeting up with an Army doctor, John Watson, just back from the Afghanistan conflict.

"The Full Monty" was a cheeky (literally!), feel-good film set in the economically-depressed steel town. A group of unemployed steelworkers put on a all-male nude cabaret to make money.

The show follows the adventures of a "Time Lord" who travels the universe in a spaceship called the TARDIS (disguised as a "police box.") When the first actor to play the Doctor became ill, the writers came up with the idea that the Doctor could take on a new body; this allowed the series to continue with a new actor.

Donne is known for both saucy love poetry in his youth and later in life, religious poems. He saw himself as two men: irreverent "Jack Donne" and pious "Reverend Donne."

Though Fawkes is the one who sticks in public memory, he was only the man who guarded the gunpowder, because he had military experience. But Robert Catesby spearheaded the plot to blow up Parliament, all in an attempt to restore England to Catholicism. Catesby, said to be a charismatic leader, drew other men like Fawkes to his cause.

If you've been hiding under a rock, you might have missed the kerfuffle over Jodie Whittaker's casting as the 12th doctor. She is the first woman to play the part.

The awards are given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Chamberlain is now mostly known to history for his policy of appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Churchill, on the other hand, gave the famous "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech and became the subject of flattering movies like "Darkest Hour."

"Murder, She Wrote" was a wildly popular American show in the "cozy" mystery subgenre. Angela Lansbury, its star, was born in London.

The invaders were from three political entities of the time -- France, Normandy, and Breton, now all part of modern-day France. The Norman Invasion changed the language and culture of the British Isles forever.

The Richard III Society, a group that believes Richard was a better king than Shakespeare's depiction of him makes out, pushed for the excavation. Sure enough, the king's remains lay under the pavement of a parking lot (which, to clarify, was once the site of a church.)

Hardy was a realist and social critic who wrote about the changing lives of working-class rural people. His characters are sometimes crushed under the wheels of modernity, like his most famous heroine, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."

Fayed was the son a wealthy Egyptian family. His father owned Harrods and the Paris Ritz. Fayed, who was a producer on films like "Chariots of Fire," died along with Diana in the 1997 car crash.